The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 41
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
Who acts: you, eyes · What happens: be, love off, drop out, get · To what, where: time, most
This is a sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generally | generally | ADV | _ | 16 loved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Generally | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 loved | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 Real | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Real | cop |
| 8 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 10 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 loved | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 hair | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 most | nmod |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 loved | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 loved | aux:pass |
| 16 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 loved | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drop | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drop | cc |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drop | nsubj |
| 22 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 loved | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 drop | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drop | conj |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 get | xcomp |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 joints | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 joints | det |
| 30 | joints | joint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 loose | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 shabby | cc |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 shabby | advmod |
| 33 | shabby | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 loose | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | the time not said here | real property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love off | present · perfect · passive | most of your hair | time | generally property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | drop out | present | your eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | present | you | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Project Gutenberg book 11757 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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